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Article: Italy Goes Platinum; In Rome, Monroe `Look-Alikes' Have Her Heart, if Not Her Face
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- The Washington Post
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- November 20, 1995
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Makes you wonder if it wouldn't be better to hold a Sophia Loren
Look-Alike Contest, instead of a Marilyn Monroe Look-Alike Contest.
It appears that not many women in Rome can pass for Marilyn, the
long-dead superstar who is very much alive in the hearts of Italians.
Two, to be exact, if this weekend's contest was any gauge.
For the rest of the 50-odd contestants . . . well, one came bald,
to give you an idea of how far off the mark this all looked. A bunch
of others came brunet. Another had the right hair color but the style
wrong; she was doing Jean Harlow, apparently.
In the end, it didn't seem to matter. What was billed as Rome's
first Marilyn Monroe Look-Alike Contest was about things ...